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Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas / Peter van der Sleen, James S. Albert.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Princeton Field Guides ; 115
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fishes--Amazon River--Identification.
- Fishes.
- Fishes--Guiana--Identification.
- Fishes--Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia)--Identification.
- Freshwater fishes--Amazon River Region--Identification.
- Freshwater fishes.
- Freshwater fishes--Guiana--Identification.
- Freshwater fishes--Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)--Identification.
- South America--Guiana.
- Amazon River.
- Amazon River Region.
- South America--Orinoco River.
- South America--Orinoco River Valley.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The Amazon and Orinoco basins in northern South America are home to the highest concentration of freshwater fish species on earth, with more than 3,000 species allotted to 564 genera. Amazonian fishes include piranhas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, a myriad of beautiful small-bodied tetras and catfishes, and the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world, the pirarucu. Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas provides descriptions and identification keys for all the known genera of fishes that inhabit Greater Amazonia, a vast and still mostly remote region of tropical rainforests, seasonally flooded savannas, and meandering lowland rivers.The guide's contributors include more than fifty expert scientists. They summarize the current state of knowledge on the taxonomy, species richness, and ecology of these fish groups, and provide references to relevant literature for species-level identifications. This richly illustrated guide contains 700 detailed drawings, 190 color photos, and 500 distribution maps, which cover all genera. An extensive and illustrated glossary helps readers with the identification keys.The first complete overview of the fish diversity in the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas, this comprehensive guide is essential for anyone interested in the freshwater life inhabiting this part of the world.First complete overview of the fish diversity in the Amazon and Orinoco basinsContributors include more than fifty expertsIdentification keys and distribution maps for all genera190 stunning color photos 700 detailed line drawingsExtensive and illustrated glossary
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD / Goulding, Michael J.
- PREFACE / Malabarba, Luiz R.
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
- IDENTIFICATION KEY TO FISH FAMILIES
- PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO FISH FAMILIES
- THE FISH FAMILIES
- GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS
- LITERATURE CITED
- PHOTO CREDITS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781803160382
- 1803160381
- 9781400888801
- 1400888808
- OCLC:
- 1004848434
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